diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index 6ab02142c6e..3b0784a7832 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -17,13 +17,11 @@ which has the following notices:
 * This product includes software developed by IBM Corporation and others.
 
 The binary distribution of this product bundles binaries of
-AWS Java SDK 1.11.199,
+AWS Java SDK 1.11.271,
 which has the following notices:
- * This software includes third party software subject to the following
- copyrights: - XML parsing and utility functions from JetS3t - Copyright
- 2006-2009 James Murty. - JSON parsing and utility functions from JSON.org -
- Copyright 2002 JSON.org. - PKCS#1 PEM encoded private key parsing and utility
- functions from oauth.googlecode.com - Copyright 1998-2010 AOL Inc.
+ * This software includes third party software subject to the following copyrights:
+   - XML parsing and utility functions from JetS3t - Copyright 2006-2009 James Murty.
+   - PKCS#1 PEM encoded private key parsing and utility functions from oauth.googlecode.com - Copyright 1998-2010 AOL Inc.
 
 The binary distribution of this product bundles binaries of
 Gson 2.2.4,
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index a37e933c8bb..3f2e37d5c56 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     <make-maven-plugin.version>1.0-beta-1</make-maven-plugin.version>
     <native-maven-plugin.version>1.0-alpha-8</native-maven-plugin.version>
     <surefire.fork.timeout>900</surefire.fork.timeout>
-    <aws-java-sdk.version>1.11.199</aws-java-sdk.version>
+    <aws-java-sdk.version>1.11.271</aws-java-sdk.version>
     <hsqldb.version>2.3.4</hsqldb.version>
     <frontend-maven-plugin.version>1.5</frontend-maven-plugin.version>
     <!-- the version of Hadoop declared in the version resources; can be overridden
@@ -785,6 +785,12 @@
         <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
         <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-bundle</artifactId>
         <version>${aws-java-sdk.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.mina</groupId>